How did the information presented relate to your textbook material on Stress?

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Please view each of the “BBC – Dealing with Stress” videos (Parts 1 – 6) posted here on the Chapter 3 Course Material page.
These are short 3 – 4 minute videos that are interesting, informative and thought provoking. After viewing 1 – 6 post your thoughts (Chapter 3 Discussion Topic 2) on what you viewed.
How did the information presented relate to your textbook material on Stress?
Were the videos thought provoking to you?
Have you ever tried any similar stress relievers?
What are your stress relievers?

Should men and women focus on trying to find the G-spot? What would be the advantages and disadvantages of doing so?

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Select one question to respond to this week; include additional information/research found online or from the library in your response. Remember to always identify the question that you select prior to your response. Your response must be at least 300 words. Don’t forget to integrate information from your source and cite it appropriately at the end of the question.
Choose 1 question from here OR from the Chapter 5 Assignment
1. Should men and women focus on trying to find the G-spot? What would be the advantages and disadvantages of doing so? What if they tried and couldn’t find it?
2. What role, if any, does the media play in shaping woman’s self-image regarding the appearance of their genitals? Be sure to discuss the relatively new cultural phenomenon of shaving one’s public region and/or genital piercings.

Identify and Apply a psychological concept to the behavior

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The objective of these assignments is to use psychological concepts to explain and understand real-world human behavior. The behavior you select to focus on can be based on your own personal experience or that of some other person(s).

1. Identify a behavior you are interested in explaining

This may be something as simple as explaining something more complex such as explaining your friend’s inability to stop smoking, or why you cannot remember the answer to an exam question you knew the night before when you were studying. The choice is yours but you should pick a very specific single behavior that you are interested in explaining.

2. Observe the behavior you want to explain

Carefully observe the behavior every time it occurs. Take note of the time, situation, emotional frame of mind of the subject (you or another person), what usually happens before the behavior is performed and after it has taken place, and how often it occurs. Additionally, think about how this particular behavior fits into the individual’s daily routine, overall lifestyle, or life plans.

3. Identify and Apply a psychological concept to the behavior

Read and review resources to understand the psychological concept you have identified as a potential explanation for a given behavior. Think about how the concept provides a logical, coherent explanation for the behavior.

Ask yourself: How does the psychological concept you identified explain the behavior you observed?

Also ask yourself: Is there anything about the behavior that is unexplained? Are you satisfied that you have adequately explained the behavior? If not, identify additional concepts from one of the other chapters that may provide a more complete or logical explanation. Once you have done this, attempt to explain the behavior using these psychological concepts/principles.

4. Write your Behavior Explanation Paper

Your paper must be formatted in APA style and include four subsections in this order (following your overall introduction, and preceding your final conclusion):

Behavior Observation

Concept Identification

Name and explain the psychological concept you identified to explain the behavior you observed. You must include from where in the course materials you read or viewed the information about the psychological concept. For example: (Chapter 14, p. 47)

Concept Application

This is the most detailed and important section of the paper.

Tell exactly how and why the psychological concept you identified explains the behavior you observed.

Evaluation and Limitations

Think critically and discuss anything about the behavior that is unexplained. Identify other psychological concepts from other chapters that may provide a more complete or logical explanation. Evaluate the concepts in terms of their ability to explain observations and discuss any limitations.

General guidelines for APA format can be found here: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format

Here is the link to a “Sample Annotated Student Paper” that highlights APA format: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/paper-format/student-annotated.pdf

5. Check your paper for plagiarism with Turnitin, then submit your paper by the due date and time to the correct assignment link in LEO.

Describe the relationship between proper ergonomic design and your workstation

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We discussed the definition of ergonomics and the role of ergonomics in our professional lives. For the assignment, you will expand on those concepts a bit further and focus on how ergonomics can affect different types of workstations.

1. Describe the relationship between proper ergonomic design and your workstation; include a real-world example. Explain how ergonomics, if not properly applied, can affect your life short-term or long-term. (Note: You may consider your study work station or your workstation at your place of employment.)
2. Amy works for a large variety store in your area. Her work tasks include standing at the cash register (checkout counter) for extended periods of time. She is responsible for scanning items and placing them into bags or the customer’s cart. Some of these items can be heavy. Describe some of the areas within this workstation where this employee could be injured. Describe what actions the employer might take to relieve some of these hazards.
3. Adam, a 25-year-old Caucasian male, is an employee working in the automotive section of a large variety store. Using the tables found in Chapter 3, provide a hypothetical description of Adam that would place him in the 50th percentile for height, weight, waist circumference, and body mass index. Provide exact measurements for Adam, using the 50th percentile columns. Explain one area where these measurements might be of use for the employer as it relates to this employee.

Construct Development, Scale Creation, and Process Analysis Paper

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Construct Development, Scale Creation, and Process Analysis Paper

What is the one distinguishing feature between the consequences of verbal behavior and other forms behavior?

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Read attached documents and answer the following questions based off readings:
Cooper et al., Chapter 1:
1. According to Cooper et al., what is the purpose of science?
2. Briefly describe the attitudes of science discussed in the chapter.
3. What are the three branches of behavior analysis? How are these branches unique?
4. Who is B. F. Skinner? Describe his contributions to behavior analysis.
5. How is radical behaviorism different from other psychological theories?
6. List and briefly describe the seven dimensions of ABA.
7. What is the fourth domain of behavior analysis, and how are the four domains interrelated?
Cooper et al., Chapter 2 :
1. Review the glossary term for behavior on page 690. Why is it important for our science to precisely define behavior, and what are the major elements of this definition?
2. Discuss the involvement of the environment in the analysis of behavior.
3. Identify the terms for the stimulus changes occurring before and after a behavior of interest. (Hint: ABCs)
4. Refer to Table 2.1 on page 28. Identify novel antecedent and consequence events (not included on the table) for a behavior, and label them as social or nonsocial.
5. Compare and contrast respondent and operant behavior and conditioning.
6. What is the primary difference between reinforcement and punishment?
7. Punishment is a colloquial term used outside of behavior analysis. Describe how the term is defined functionally in behavior analysis and how this differs from the layman’s use of the term.
8. What is extinction?
9. Provide examples of the following:
– Unconditioned reinforcers and punishers
– Conditioned reinforcers and punishers
Pierce and Cheney, Chapter 14
1. What are the three levels of selection?
2. Describe how selection by consequences relates to selection at each level.
3. Describe how the authors discuss cultural practices.
4. What are metacontingencies?
5. How does cultural evolution occur?
Skinner (1981), Selection by Consequences document:
1. What are the three kinds of selection by consequences Skinner discusses in this paper? List the discipline associated with each level, i.e., which level is the focus of psychology, biology, and anthropology.
2. Skinner discusses how human verbal behavior is under similar contingencies of reinforcement selected by its consequences. What is the one distinguishing feature between the consequences of verbal behavior and other forms behavior?
3. According to Skinner, how does a culture evolve?
4. Skinner asserts that human behavior is the joint product of three factors. List these here.
5. At each level of selection, one may ask why a specific behavior continues to occur (species characteristics at Level 1 or cultural practices at Level 3). What is Skinner’s response to this question?
6. Comment on the final section regarding the lack of an initiating agent. Why do you think the selectionist approach to behavior was controversial? Do you think it is still a controversial approach today?

Who or what taught you the most about sexuality when you were a child and teenager?

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Please take about 30 minutes to compose an at least 500 word discussion post that answers each of the following questions:

Who or what taught you the most about sexuality when you were a child and teenager? What lessons did you learn? What would have made the transition from adolescence to adulthood easier with respect to understanding human sexuality?
You may be single or not. But at some point you were probably single and dating. What part of the dating experience was easy and difficult to navigate? Given what you learned about human sexuality as an adolescent and young adult, did you feel prepared to communicate clearly with dating partners about your opinions and desires? If so, why? If not, why not?
Many changes have taken place in marriage policies, and there has been liberalization of divorce laws. Has it become too easy to get divorced? What factors do you feel contribute to long-term partnerships?

Briefly discuss capital punishment from both a deontological and utilitarian ethical perspective.

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Discussion questions:
1-3. Answer 3 discussion questions from chapter 4. Pick 3 questions from the end of the chapter and answer. Please type questions picked in bold and respond in normal font. Use books as references and citations. I will post it in the upload. These are two different assignments in one paper.
heres the link to the book :
http://www.usessay.com/downloads/paper/2623/Ethics__Crime_and_criminal_justice_book.pdf
Then, using the uploaded lecture: Answer the following questions from the uploaded lecture:
4. In your opinion, is Gert correct in reasoning that morals rules are universal?
5. To what extent is the pro-con argument about capital punishment based upon facts or values? Briefly discuss capital punishment from both a morals rulesand utilitarian ethical perspective.

What do you feel is the best/most appropriate time and approach to begin educating individuals about human sexuality?

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  • Please watch the following to begin…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUDKEI4QKI

Please take some time to respond in your discussion post about the reflections and thoughts that arise for you in viewing this clip… How can we best make sense of and address the intersex experience in a biblical manner? How could we go about creating safe, loving spaces for these individuals and their experiences in our church communities–as, according to statistics, it is likely that you’ve encountered someone with this experience in your churches or even here on campus!

2) This week’s discussion topic is *drum roll*….

Sex Ed!

In light of reading through the chapter, the different developmental stages, and even the different approaches of sex ed in different cultures, please interact with the following:

What do you feel is the best/most appropriate time and approach to begin educating individuals about human sexuality? What was your experience of sex education as you grew up? Imagine yourself (or reflect on your personal experience) as someone trying to parent children within the church… what would you be concerned about (peers, media, etc.?) and how would you personally hope to approach this topic?

Investigate whether and how the difference in value can affect people’s attitudes towards their environment

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Investigate whether and how the difference in value can affect people’s attitudes towards their environment